Return To Oz

(intro) C#m

C#m
Once there was a man
         E               B        
who had a little too much time on 
      G#
his hands
he never stopped to think that he 
             A
was getting older.
    C#m
When his night came to an end
           C                  
He tried to grasp for his last 
              G
friend and pretend
                           B       
That he could wish himself health 
                 A
on a four leaf clover

           C
He said is this the return to Oz?
              F                G# 
The grass is dead, the gold is 
                     C
brown and the sky has claws

There's a wind up man walking round 
and round
     F                   G#       
What once was Emerald City is now 
           C
a crystal town

C#m
Its three o' clock in the morning
           E                   B  
You get a phone call from the 
                   G#
queen with a hundred heads
                           A
She says that they're all dead
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              C#m
She tried the last one on

It couldn't speak, fell off
    C
And now she just wanders the halls
         G       B                
Thinking nothing, thinking nothing
    A
 at all

           C
He said is this the return to Oz?
              F                G# 
The grass is dead, the gold is 
                     C
brown and the sky has claws

There's a wind up man walking round 
and round
     F                   G#       
What once was Emerald City is now 
           C
a crystal town

(solo) C B Bb G
       C B Bb G# G C

C#m
The wheelies are cutting pavement
        E                B
and the Skeksis at the rave meant
   G#
to hide deep inside
               A
their sunken faces
                        C#m
and their wild, rolling eyes
                         C
But their callous words reveal
                        G
That they can no longer feel
           B
Love or sex appeal
    A
The patchwork girl has come to cinch
 the deal

C                      F
To return to Oz we've fled the world
     G#                    C
With smiles and clenching jaws

Please help me friend from coming 
down
      F             G#            
I've lost my place now and it cant
     C
 be found

Is this the return to Oz?
               F               G# 
The grass is dead, the gold is 
                    C
brown and the sky has claws

There's a wind up man walking round 
and round
     F                G#          
What once was Emerald City is now 
          C
a crystal town

( C#m  C  G  B  A ) (4x)